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e’re quite a few weeks into a new year Editor’s and we’re getting an idea what she looks like. It’s tempting to chide ourselves that we’re behind on some of those resolutions we LETTER made as we chinked glasses with friends and family at midnight.
I wasn’t sure who first said ‘patience is a virtue’, perhaps someone whose significant other or child had a very short fuse. No, it turns out – as it usually does – that some writer, with too much time on his hands, first introduced it into our daily lives. This ON THE COVER time it was the English author and courtier Geoffrey Chaucer (ca. 1345-1400) who, clearly, had so much leisure time he could afford to be patient.
Once he had said it, Geoffrey didn’t have the benefit of Wikipedia (‘good things come to those who wait’ is a synonym, it appears) to ask the internet the obvious question: why exactly is it a virtue? Good things come to those who wait is fine for your Chaucers sitting back with a fine port and a good book in a musty study conjuring fine phrases.
2013 was unlucky and downright horrible for some. The very talented and For the 2014 vintage, I say make it a bit more robust and throw patience to the wind. I’m going glamorous Scarlett with Roman poet and philosopher Horace – born Johansson some 1,400 years before Geoffrey and therefore coming up with quick quotes long before him. It was Horace who coined the original of ‘take the bull by the horns’: Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero, meaning ‘seize the day while trusting little on what tomorrow might bring’.
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22 I togethermag.eu togethermag.eu I 23 PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT Self-Help Health is in your hands Tom Meyers, Stress Coach for Body and Mind, says that improving your life is within your reach tress is a constant factor in modern life. With increased demands at work, social Sand personal challenges, extensive to-do lists, pressures and time constraints, stressors have pushed our body’s equilibrium- maintaining mechanisms over the tipping point of self-regulation.
In other words, modern life makes us sick due to distress. Distress is a person’s inability to cope and the psychoneurophysiological adaptation processes fail to return to a dynamic homeostasis (allostasis). Chronic stress leads to structural and functional changes in your brain, increases the ageing process of your DNA and leads to anxiety, depression and many other psychiatric disorders on top of the better known stress- related ailments of back, neck and shoulder pain, digestive and cardiovascular problems.
Like a thief in the night, stress robs you of your health and wellbeing. challenges our prehistoric ancestors had to face but is not so suited for what modern life The good news is that health is in your hands. brings along. Unfortunately, our biology hasn’t You are holding in your hands all that is needed really had the time to evolve, so stress can also to help yourself and others to regulate stress be described as the conflict between biology and promote health. and culture.
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HÔTELS & PRÉFÉRENCE Relationships Natasha Black offers seven tips for attracting, creating and maintaining your relationship that rock lui plaisir pourFêtes la Saint-Valentin
ove, love, love, the month of love is upon that there’s nobody out there for you, you will us again! And whether you do or don’t keep being shown people who don’t fit the bill. Ltake part in the St. Valentine’s Day But let’s face it, you’re only looking for one reverie, there is no denying that every single person (hopefully), in a world filled with billions one of us wants to be loved, adored and of people, and that one person can only be cherished by a significant other. found when you know what you want and give that your focus and attention. Ultimately, we all want the same thing, so why is it that expert relationship help, advice and 2. Know how you want to feel guidance is so highly sought after? You would It’s my guess that if you’re not getting what you think we’d all have perfected it by now! But the want out of your relationship, you’re probably truth is many people struggle in the love not feeling too great about it. Unhappiness, department and have no idea how to change it. loneliness, despair, take your pick of emotion, are hardly conducive to being in a loving In this month’s article, I’m sharing my top seven relationship. You know you don’t want to feel tips to help you attract, create and maintain this way, but somehow you can’t get out of it. relationships that rock. The best way to counteract this is by knowing how you want to feel and focus on doing more 1. Know what you want of the things that make you feel that way. The When your relationship, or lack of, isn’t going key here is to recognize that, whilst your perfect the way you want it to, it’s easy to focus on mate can make you happy and take away the COFFRETS CADEAUX what’s not working or happening. Every time loneliness, ultimately it is down to you to find it you focus on the downside you take yourself within yourself first. à partir de 100€ deeper into the abyss of not having what you want. When you flip this around and focus on 3. Put your relationship with you, first! what you do want, you give your brain the ability This is so important and leads on perfectly from +33 1 78 94 90 40 to seek out what you want. Let me give you an the previous tip. Quite simply you cannot du lundi au vendredi de 9h à 19h example: if you want to be in a relationship but expect someone else to give you everything keep telling yourself and anyone who’ll listen you need if you can’t, won’t or don’t give it to www.coffretpreference.com togethermag.eu I 29 PERSONAL PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT DEVELOPMENT Self-Help Self-Help yourself first. The relationship you have with yourself A great way to clear these kinds of wounds is to going out, having fun, buying each other is the most important relationship you will ever have write a letter to the person, being as explicit as presents, giving love, sharing, supporting and and let’s face it, you have a lifetime of being you, so you like, writing out everything that comes into contributing? don’t you think it would be a good idea to first fall in your mind. When you feel as though you’ve got love with yourself? everything off your chest, either rip the letter up If you want to attract a new relationship then this When you do this, I guarantee that your whole life will into tiny pieces or burn it and let yourself is all about taking a look at where the space is take on a whole new meaning. release any pain and suffering you may have to allow that new relationship to come in. For held onto. example, does your home need a good clean 4. Let go of the need to have what you out? This may sound strange, but if you’ve got want 7. Open your space to love old photos or possessions of past lovers then One thing I’ve come to learn is that when you If you aren’t open, you can’t let anything in. the message you are giving out to the universe become too attached to what you want, you Imagine you are in front of a closed door. You is that you are holding onto your old lover. It become blindsided to what else is out there and end can’t just walk straight through it, you have to could also be that you spend all of your free up missing out on possibilities you hadn’t even open it and then walk through. If your space is time doing stuff - it’s amazing how many people considered. When you are attached to something, closed to love then you can’t let in the love you are constantly busy and they don’t give time in you leave no room for the unexpected to show up. COULD YOU crave. their life time to let a partner in. When you let go of the need to have what you want, you free yourself up to enjoy everything else that is BE HOLDING If you are already in a relationship then this is all Keep these tips to hand throughout the year, so out there and it’s more likely that you’ll attract what about taking a good look at yourself and you too can experience a relationship that you want into your life more easily and more quickly. becoming aware of how you may have closed rocks! ONTO AN your love off to your partner. For example, how 5. Recognize your themes and break the much time do you really spend with your cycle OLD LOVE partner doing stuff to nurture your relationship, What recurring themes, scripts or stories keep showing up in your love life? To recognize them, all you have to do is take note of the things that keep WOUND? happening to you over and over again. Perhaps you keep attracting the bad boys that love you and leave you or maybe the women you meet aren’t ready to settle down to have a family yet. Once you are aware of the road you keep going down, you can make a conscious choice to break the cycle and choose something different for yourself.
6. Clear old love wounds Could you be holding onto an old love wound that is keeping you from having the relationship of your dreams? You would be amazed how many people still hold onto the hurt of splitting up from their first love, years, even decades after the relationship ended! It isn’t uncommon to still feel the pain, sadness and hurt on some level, even if you aren’t consciously doing it. If you hold onto a wound from a past relationship, the stored up emotions will pretty much affect every relationship you have.
Your subconscious holds your emotions, feelings, values, attitudes, behaviours, patterns and stores them like a computer in order to protect you. The problem is that your subconscious will keep on protecting you even when there is no longer a need.
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IT’S CERTAINLY POSSIBLE THAT Antony and CLEOPATRA AND ANTONY HAD A DEEP Colin Moors steps back in time LOVE FOR EACH OTHER to unravel a stirring Cleopatra love story CLEOPATRA, THE WILY SEDUCTRESS AND MARK ANTONY, THE DASHING GENERAL
“Upon her landing, Antony sent to her, Invited her to supper; she replied. It should be better he became her guest, Which she entreated. Our courteous Antony, Whom ne’er the word of ‘No’ woman heard speak, Being barber’d ten times o’er, goes to the feast, And, for his ordinary pays his heart For what his eyes eat Her charm and guile certainly had the men story. If you’re over 30, you’ll probably have Iran). It was probably as much a ‘marriage’ of only.” begging for more. A combination of ‘you go, girl’ seen the epic three-hour-plus film Cleopatra convenience as anything but it certainly and Eve in The Garden of Eden, she had the starring another tempestuous and passionate worked. At least, it did until the tide turned his was Mark Antony’s good friend power and the skill to get what she wanted but, pairing, Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor in against them. Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus, unfortunately, her actions were to bring about the roles of the fated couple. If you haven’t seen Tnarrator in Shakespeare’s play about not only her own demise but that of an entire it, do – it plays a little fast and loose with the Their individual suicides are the stuff of legend. the life and times of one of history’s most republic. facts but is probably the best cinematic telling Parallels can certainly be drawn to one of celebrated couples. ‘Couple’ here is used in the of the story. Shakespeare’s other masterpieces, Romeo and very loosest of senses, as both of Cleopatra’s Mark Antony was, as most of us know, the Juliet. Desperate lovers unable to imagine life lovers were already in relationships, even if they favoured general of Caesar and the one who The status of Mark Antony, co-ruler of The without the other, choosing to exit this life rather were wishing their spouses dead. Caesar, then picked up the job of raising Caesar’s son when Roman Empire with Caesar’s adopted son than face the reality and a difficult love affair. It’s Mark Antony, she held sway over Rome for the emperor died. He was also something of a Octavianus and the wit, charm and intelligence certainly possible that Cleopatra and Antony many years. History is somewhat confused as ladies’ man, with four wives and countless of Cleopatra, a woman who was a skilled had a deep love for each other but as history is to whether she was truly a radiant beauty. mistresses. It hardly seems a match made in mathematician and fluent in nine languages, always written by the winners, the story has Historians argue over petty facts, but she can’t heaven but they did things differently in those must have proved to be the ultimate aphrodisiac been subject to propaganda and spurious have been hideous to look at and was certainly days. Whatever really happened between them in days of old. Cleopatra wanted Egypt to be retellings ever since. a consummate charmer. and whatever the outcome of their safe from Roman occupation and Mark Antony shenanigans, they left the world – largely thanks needed some help with the mess he’d got It’s a testament to how they lived that every to Shakespeare – an enigmatic and stirring love himself into across the road in Parthia (now attempt to recreate their lives in the cinema has
34 I togethermag.eu togethermag.eu I 35 STAR-CROSSED LOVERS F L E U R S D E M A P A S S I O N Couples invariably involved an awful lot of cash. The Burton/Taylor film was eye-wateringly Popular culture rewrites their characters as expensive, with Taylor alone being paid $1m distinct and very different; Cleopatra, the wily plus 10% of the profits – and this was 50 years seductress and Mark Antony, the dashing ago when that sort of money could buy you the general, waging war and saving the queen from continent of Europe. It’s also the film on which the might of the Roman army. This is partly true, they met and began what was to be a long and although in reality, Cleopatra was a clever fiery relationship. Burton was seventh in line for woman who already ruled a nation with her the role in the film, but Mark Antony was only brother and husband (yes, the same person) second. and who wanted peace in her land. Antony was
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a soldier, co-ruler of Rome and, ultimately, a man who made poor choices in which countries to invade, leading to the tragic ending to the story.
Their tale has been recounted so many times, it’s something everyone has an almost innate sense of. How many other queens of Egypt and their husband could you name? By fair means or foul, their story is one that has survived over 2,000 years.
It’s probably best to finish on Shakespeare, as he says it better than I, with Antony’s words as the sword goes in:
“I have done my work in, friends: O, make an end Of what I have begun.”
36 I togethermag.eu STAR-CROSSED STAR-CROSSED LOVERS LOVERS Couples Couples Thornton describes his first encounter with perhaps an augur that the Fates would deal Burton, on location for the film The VIPs: them a few bad decks. In 1968, Taylor had to “Burton, wild-eyed and red in the face, was undergo a hysterectomy. “A child with Richard. I punching the air like a boxer who had lost would have wanted that above everything in the Burton and co-ordination. My first impression was that he world,” she later said. must be filming a drunk scene. But then several Paul Morris retraces the footprints of his wild lunges landed on innocent passers- Romance of this sort can bring wild mood left by the 20th century’s greatest by, and I realized that he was paralytic. I swings. He once told her: “I do not wish to proponents of boundless love discovered that he had consumed 14 Bloody touch your hands. They are large and ugly and Taylor Marys before lunch, then moved on to neat red and masculine.” To make amends, he vodka in the afternoon.” shelled out $1.1 million for a Cartier diamond ring. And they were actors 24/7 after all: the Liz made a valiant attempt to keep up with him competition was always – rightly so - fierce. in their extended drinking bouts, but William Harking back to their debut, he said: “I was Ivory, writer of the 90-minute film, who himself acting Antony… she was Cleopatra.” has struggled with the demon drink, claims: In 1973, when Burton had an affair with co-star “Burton and Taylor were addicted to more than Nathalie Delon on the set of Divorce His, alcohol. They were addicted to each other.” Divorce Hers, Taylor called off the marriage. “Maybe we loved each other too much,” she In one of his letters (included in a collection said. Furious Love compiled by Sam Kashner and Nancy Schoenberger) Burton confides to his In later years, when they came together once diary his recollection of first seeing Ms Taylor. “A more in Private Lives (ironic titles appeared to girl sitting on the other side of the pool lowered hound them), 51-year-old Taylor’s performance her book, took off her sunglasses and looked at was lambasted as “perfectly terrible… a me.” Burton was 28. “She was lavish. She was caricature of Coward’s heroine, inside a a dark, unyielding largesse. She was, in short, caricature of an actress, inside a caricature of too bloody much, and not only that: she was Elizabeth Taylor”. But the American public loved ignoring me.” them all the same – you had to kill for a seat. It wasn’t Noel Coward, it was the Liz and Dick In true movie fashion let us cut to nine years Show. later and they are starring in the epic Cleopatra. And – after much mutual volcanic smouldering Few people under thirty will get the point of all f I asked you what you thought of Burton and Taylor (both married, remember) - one sizzling on-set of this, and how could they? You had to see the SHE WAS, IN you would be forgiven for imagining a rather smart kiss (which lasted way after everyone else had films close to those times, close to their context, Ibespoken gentlemen’s clothiers off Chelsea’s gone to lunch) was enough to trigger an off-on- when movies were allowed languorous scenes SHORT, TOO fashionable King’s Road. Put those two surnames on-off love affair that would last decades, during that allowed intense, heated drama to develop together though and what you get is arguably the most which it could be argued that they had a fairly with the help of something called dialogue – explosive, most romantic and, ultimately, most tragic balanced relationship: they married twice and and extraordinary creatures masquerading as BLOODY MUCH, love affair of the century just passed. divorced twice. actors.
AND NOT ONLY Writing in The Telegraph, Michael Thornton, who got to That bookworm girl from the poolside was a I was quite young when first I saw The Taming know both Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton well, distant memory. As one half of the world’s most of the Shrew (we had to do read it at school) reviewed the new BBC biopic Burton and Taylor, with famous couple, he later wrote: “She is a wildly but I couldn’t care less about the fact that the THAT: SHE WAS Helena Bonham Carter and Dominic West in the titular exciting love-mistress, she is shy and witty, she words were mostly gibberish: here, the Bard roles, and said that it “brilliantly recreates the turbulent is nobody’s fool, she is a brilliant actress, she is Bill’s story was being told without the need for IGNORING ME relationship of the glittering Hollywood couple”. beautiful beyond the dreams of pornography. his clever rhyming couplets - it was unfolding in And I’ll love her till I die.” action, in pure animal energy. You could turn “Turbulent”, “destructive”, “diabolical”, “furious”, these are the volume down and still get the point of it all. the adjectives thrown like palmfuls of mud at a couple That they had begun their acting collaboration When Liz hurled stuff at him, you felt like who simply made the rest of the world look very in a drama that Shakespeare was drawn to was ducking. ordinary.
38 I togethermag.eu togethermag.eu I 39 STAR-CROSSED LOVERS Couples THE KEY TO AN To watch them together – even in flops – still brings goose bumps because there’s a fathomless passion EXTRAORDINARY there and also, lest we get caught up in all the sex and violence, intelligence and a LIFE IS QUITE rare kind of symbiotic grandeur. It’s a dangerous cocktail, sure, but it was a LITERALLY A KEY. train crash that we couldn’t take our eyes off as we THE ABSOLUTE OPPOSITE OF ORDINARY | INTRODUCING THE NEW GHIBLI GHIBLI.MASERATI.COM | watched the couplers of their extraordinary, shared life snap and the carriages list into the ditch.
In the summer of 1984, Burton sat in the library and wrote Taylor a love letter. The following day, he went out on a binge with his friends, got in a fight and hit his head on the floor. He suffered a massive cerebral hemorrhage, dying on the operating table. He was 58 years old.
Taylor got back home after he was laid to rest and discovered the letter, THE NEW MASERATI GHIBLI IS POWERED BY A RANGE OF ADVANCED 3.0 LITRE V6 ENGINES WITH 8-SPEED ZF AUTO, postmarked the day before INCLUDING A V6 TURBODIESEL ENGINE, AND IS AVAILABLE WITH MASERATI’S Q4 INTELLIGENT ALL WHEEL DRIVE SYSTEM. his untimely death. He wrote: “Home was where in flames. Elizabeth was.” He wanted to come home, and she kept that letter by her bedside until her Not many married people would compose a death in 2011. missive like this a decade into their union: “I wish I could tell you of my love for you, of my And surely that’s a fine ending to this romantic fear, my delight, my pure animal pleasure of you episode in the hearts of any man or woman. - my jealousy, my pride, my anger at you, at Except… times. Most of all my love for you, and whatever love you can dole out to me - I wish I could Today, fifty years on from that first spark of their write about it but I can’t. courting, a letter – discovered inside a book left behind at a house in Oroville, California, that “I can only ‘boil and bubble’ inside and hope Burton and Taylor rented while he was filming you understand how I really feel. Anyway I lust The Klansman - went up for auction. It was thee, written by Taylor to Burton on the eve of their quarrel-ridden 10th wedding anniversary. It’s a Your (still) Wife.” INTRODUCING THE NEW MASERATI GHIBLI. wonder it survived: from the content you would ACG Maserati NV Read it and weep, as the old saying goes… IJZERWEGLAAN 101, 9000 GENT expect the writing paper to combust and wither The new Maserati Ghibli offers all the style, luxury and dynamic performance that you would expect from a Maserati, combined with a unique, exclusive appeal. The Ghibli is powered by a range of advanced 3.0 litre V6 engines including, for the first time, a V6 turbo diesel engine. In addition, the Ghibli is available with Maserati’s innovative Q4 All Wheel Drive system. F.M.A. ERTBRUGGESTRAAT 108 C, 2110 WIJNEGEM 40 I togethermag.eu DIESEL ENGINE: V6 60° 2987 CC - MAXX POWER: 275 HP AT 4000 RPM - MAX TORQUE: 570 NM AT 2000/2600 RPM - MAX SPEED: 250 KM/H - ACCELERATION 0-100 KM/H: 6.3 SECS FUEL CONSUMPTION (COMBINED): < 6 Francorchamp s Motors Brussels
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Italian writer and previous TV director Carlo Carlei is at the helm of the UK-produced film with screenwriter Julian Fellowes (Gosford Park (2001), Downton Abbey (2010-) adapting to modern sensibilities – Douglas Booth and for four Oscars, and has since been back to the masses. Starring teenagers Hailee Steinfeld star as Romeo Montague accepted as a classic. However, given that Leonard Whiting and Olivia Hussey, it won and Juliet Capulet, the ‘star-crossed’ lovers Howard was 43 and Shearer 34 at the time Academy Awards for Best Cinematography to beat ‘em all. chance to catch it – we shall see. of the film’s production, they could hardly and Best Costume Design and was also The motivation may have been to make the have been described as the ‘young’ lovers of nominated for Best Director and Best Picture. And, while the story may be utterly timeless, Shakespeare’s original story. The most financially successful version of a Carlei’s version has already come in for the film accessible to all, something of which Shakespeare would most certainly have Shakespeare play ever made at the time, it critical carping that one might expect – Renato Castellani‘s 1954 adaptation was the was popular among teenagers, partly controversially, the adaptation has eschewed approved – the tragedy, written early in Shakespeare’s career, was and is (along with first to dare to represent the tragic lovers as because the film used actors who were Shakespeare’s original language, young – Lawrence Harvey was just 26, and closer to the ages of R+J for the first time. concentrating instead on the story’s thematic Hamlet) among the most frequently performed of his plays, concerning two his Juliet, Susan Shentall, was 20 – elements, and turning your back on the Castellani’s fidelity paid off in certain Zeffirelli’s film managed to absorb key events Bard’s best feature (that would be his use of young lovers whose deaths ultimately reconcile their feuding families. It was one of quarters, with the film winning the Golden and characters from the play into a new English) was never going to be a popular Lion at the Venice Film Festival and voted composition that nevertheless did not feel choice. Like Franco Zeffirelli’s adaptation of Shakespeare’s most popular plays during his lifetime and, to date, has been the subject of best foreign film by the National Board of, compressed or abridged – contextualizing the play, the film uses the traditional setting of but, elsewhere, the critical response was the narrative in the anxieties of the late Renaissance Verona but, unlike any of the 12 film adaptations (dating as far back as 1900) and even a 2007 animé television distinctly underwhelming. Castellani was 1960s, namely such issues as sexual identity previous major film adaptations, only follows heavily criticized for his decision to include and generational conflict (think Vietnam for the plot and uses very little of Shakespeare’s series, Romeo x Juliet. The first four versions were silent and only one, made in 1916 (the interpolated scenes and greatly reduce the Verona) linked the film brilliantly to the mores traditional dialogue. “Seventy-five per cent of major supporting roles, such as that of of the original and, in reducing the verbosity the film is Shakespeare,” Fellowes claimed in 300th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death), is believed to still be in existence. Nurse, Mercutio (Romeo’s close friend) and and articulacy of the two central characters, an interview with The Globe and Mail. “We’ve Tybalt (his nemesis and the play’s main provided a clever, realistic take on star- tightened the narrative, we’ve made certain antagonist), and for much reducing a key crossed, almost ‘tongue-tied’ lovers. things clearer that were difficult to George Cukor was to make the first definitive version in 1936 and, while neither critics nor scene in Shakespeare’s original, the fatal understand, but the great speeches are all fight between Romeo and Tybalt. And so to the tragedy’s last (and perhaps still in.” audiences responded enthusiastically at the time, the film, starring Leslie Howard and most important) adaptation of the 20th Norma Shearer, was nevertheless nominated It was Franco Zeffirelli’s 1968 British-Italian century, Baz Luhrmann’s Romeo + Juliet Your correspondent has not yet had the production that was to first bring the Bard (1996) which, despite its post-modern, quasi-
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Watchmaking Watchmaking Maurice Lacroix: Making time for authenticity Together visits a company whose watchword is ‘authenticity’
he world of luxury watchmaking is, by doesn’t work; they have proved to be a very necessity, dominated by the problematic market for this very reason. These Tmicroscopic work of craftsmen and consumers can see through marketing spiel like – or go one better. As if attempting to stop time faster in a conventional textile suit than women. However, Maurice Lacroix is also an open window. Only when the brand is in its tracks, the new slogan states: ‘Your Time Magnussen. capable of seeing the larger picture – one honest, true and speaks with mutual respect Is Now’. Managing Director Marc Gläser said previous slogan was ‘Follow Your Convictions’, will they listen. about the new campaign: “Just what Maurice “Every day, as a company, we seek to enhance backed up by then brand ambassadors Bob Lacroix is all about. It is fresh, evocative, our interaction with time. Performance is critical Geldof (musician, activist, businessman), Jimmy In just over three decades the company has inspiring and the message is very clear and to our success, both in terms of accuracy and Wales (founder of Wikipedia) and Justin Rose made its mark with several design awards and direct. It will strongly contribute to build the the way we seek innovative methods to impart (professional golfer). This might appear unusual registered patents for its innovative image of our brand which is all about stylish, time. Our team consists of staff who go all out for a Swiss luxury watch brand but, launching complications and ingenious mechanisms – meaningful enjoyment… with great substance.” to improve everything we do. They have a its first watch in 1975, the firm is a bit of a new recognized for the very stuff of watchmaking as ‘can-do’ attitude which is refreshing and has kid on the watchmaking block. we imagine it but always redefining the meaning The latest recruit to their ambassadorship would produced many success stories for our of luxury in the market. The notion that ‘true know more than most just how precious every company. James Magnussen shares our values In its three decades it has managed to combine quality comes from within’ is a rich seam microsecond can be – the difference between and drive for greatness.” tradition with innovation, striving to improve the running through everything they do. winning and losing, between celebrating and complex mechanics of their watches, while picking yourself up and starting again. He’s How will Magnussen fare at the next Olympic developing what they call an ‘authentic’ There are not many independent watchmakers. Australian Olympic swimmer James Games? Only time will tell… approach to it all. As Geldof said, “You can’t just So, it is a great source of pride to Maurice Mangussen who has earned the nickname ‘The say you’re authentic or that you have Lacroix that it joined the exclusive league of Missile’ for his speed on the water’s surface. www.mauricelacroix.com substance. That won’t wash. You’ve got to Swiss watchmakers at the end of 2006. It has The only competitors to beat his record time of NOVELTY 2014 prove it. You’ve got to be it. In everything you its own factories, with over 200 employees 47.10 seconds have only done so when do.” producing complex components for mechanical wearing the now-banned ‘super suit’. No one is calibers, allowing it a great deal of freedom in The firm talks of “leading the times, rather than R&D. It is a worldwide operation, but the chasing them by inspiring others to be who they majority of the staff are based at the really are”. For Lacroix it is all about authenticity. international head office in Zürich and the THESE CONSUMERS Pure and simple. It is an independent company, production facilities in Saignelégier and with its own workshops where skilled workers Montfaucon in Switzerland, close to the handcraft contemporary designs and unique, historical home of fine watchmaking. CAN SEE THROUGH innovative movement complications. At Lacroix, they have an “inner confidence to do things Bob Dylan once sang “Time passes slowly MASTERPIECEMARKETING MYSTERY their way – just like our clients”. when you’re lost in a dream”. But these days it DOES TIME HAVE TO BE CIRCULAR ? appears to move a great deal faster than that Their target customer is someone who is driven gentle tick of the second hand on a watch, and SPIEL LIKE AN and has seen it all – so soft-soaping them Maurice Lacroix is determined to keep up with it OPEN WINDOW 66 I togethermag.eu togethermag.eu I 67 LIFE OF LEISURE I’m human. Yeah, of course. I’m a girl. We wake up every day and go, ‘Oh God. What changed as I slept? LIFE OF LIFE OF LEISURE LEISURE Interview Interview carlett Johansson, 28, is enjoying one something that I have been developing for of the most prolific periods in her career. about six years. Summer Crossing is based on SShe has three upcoming movies: Don a Truman Capote novella and it takes place in Scarlett Jon, Her, and Under the Skin, and is soon to New York, in 1948. It was published work behind the camera when she directs posthumously by his estate. Actually, I found it Summer Crossing, a film adapted from a in an airport bookstore. I was looking for a new Truman Capote novel. thing and I saw it and thought, ‘Oh. I don’t know Johansson: that Capote book.’ I read it on a plane and I was A glamorous icon, Johansson has appeared in like, ‘Oh my God. This is the book I’ve been advertising campaigns for Calvin Klein, L’Oreal, searching for to adapt!’ So that’s something and Louis Vuitton. She has been the face of new for me and other than that, who knows? I Mango since 2009, as well as Dolce and hope to continue to be able to do more theatre New York’s finest Gabbana and Moet & Chandon. in New York.”
A delightful New Born in New York City, her father, an architect, Together: After 40 films and 20 years Yorker shares 20 is from Denmark, and her mother is a producer in the business did you find out what years of acting – from the Bronx. She has an older sister, you are capable of and what your limits and she’s only 28 Vanessa, who’s also an actress, an older are? brother, Adrian, and a twin brother, Hunter. She also has an older half- “I think I have a much brother, Christian, from deeper understanding of her father’s first marriage. OH MY GOD. THIS the complexity of my job and the possibilities now Currently engaged to IS THE BOOK I’VE than ever before, just by advertising executive, the manner of the variety Romain Dauriac, since of the work that I have September 2013, she BEEN SEARCHING done and the time I put was formerly married to into it. What do they say? Ryan Reynolds for over a FOR TO ADAPT 10,000 hours, is what year between 2007 and makes you good at 2008. Prior to these something? Well, I put relationships she dated her Black Dahlia co-star like 100,000 hours in. (laughs) But I am more Josh Hartnett for two years until the end of inspired by my job now than ever before 2006. because the possibilities seem limitless. I understand my job in a totally different way. It’s Considered a modern sex symbol, she has evolved, it’s different, I am interested in different frequently appeared on numerous ‘sexiest’ lists, things, I can imagine somebody going into most notably by Esquire in both 2006 and teaching classes. I like the collaboration and I 2013, and the sexiest celebrity by Playboy like young actors. I love the collaborative magazine in 2007. experience of working with a cast and I think I appreciate other people’s strengths in a A staunch Democrat she campaigned for different way and their weaknesses in a way I candidate John Kerry in the 2004 presidential hadn’t before.” elections and did the same for Barack Obama original campaign as well as his re-election in Together: Did you have paparazzi 2012 there when filming Under the Skin? The British tabloids can be very tough. Together: You seem very busy at the “We did have one or two but we were also in moment. the middle of Glasgow. There was one guy who “Yes and also I will be directing and that’s was just relentless, but it wasn’t like shooting in something that has been a journey to get to, it’s London.”
70 I togethermag.eu togethermag.eu I 71 LIFE OF LEISURE Interview Together: Is there a certain subject Together: Do you have that feeling where you say ‘that relates to me.’ looking back at your career that “No, you never know what is going to come up, certain projects didn’t turn out as well you just never know. I mean, this year has been as you expected or hoped they would such a strange series of opportunities. When I be? was doing Captain America 2, I was “Of course. And then other movies, I was like, simultaneously making three other movies at ‘Wow, I didn’t even know I was like that.’ I once and I was doing Her with Spike (Jonze), remember with Lost in Translation, the script and I had all kinds of projects going on at one was 72 pages, we shot it in like 26 days or time.” something. Commercially, it was a huge success, and critically, I had no idea people Together: The reception for Under The were going to respond the way they did. So Skin quite controversial when you were you never know. I mean, I was in The Island, in Cannes. which is like Michael Bay’s only failure at the “Yeah, people are rude sometimes, especially box office (laughter) and I think the movie at a festival where there’s a certain kind of mass actually kind of did succeed artistically for him, hysteria that happens and but you never know.” people kind of lose sense of common decency I AM MORE Together: So you just which seems to happen move on and kind of often. But it was the first INSPIRED BY MY learn to live with and only time I will ever things? watch this movie with an JOB NOW THAN “Yeah, I think I had more audience. I think people small films that have forgot to breathe at points succeeded, (laughs) that and so at the end I looked EVER BEFORE always feels like a huge around me and everyone accomplishment, and it’s was like, (exhales) and just BECAUSE THE more effective when a tried to contemplate what small film succeeds than was that experience about. POSSIBILITIES when a big movie fails. I I don’t know, it leaves you don’t know why, but for like full of thought, whether some reason it’s more it’s bad or good, and that SEEM LIMITLESS profound I guess. When a to me is interesting. I big movie fails, it’s usually remember seeing Eyes Wide Shut and it had not your fault.” that same thing, but it wasn’t in a festival. Festivals are crazy because people boo and Together: What do you think was the cheer and clap and stand. Normally you don’t important element for you in staying have that experience in an actual movie theatre grounded in Hollywood having success so you are already putting yourself in a at such a young age? vulnerable position just knowing that people will “I never moved to LA. I always stayed in New actually comment about it. People would laugh, York, and that itself I think was just such a point, yell, walk out, it was very strange.” consistency, being in New York and having my friends there, going to school and always kind Together: Have you ever felt of returning back to the city. And New York uncomfortable with your body as your doesn’t give a shit basically so when you are character does in the movie? there it feels like we are all crammed together in “Yeah, I mean, I’m human. Yeah, of course. I’m this one crazy city, these different socio- a girl. (laughter) Aren’t we all like that when we economic backgrounds and race and culture, wake up every day and go, ‘Oh God. What it’s a melting pot.” changed as I slept?”
72 I togethermag.eu LIFE OF LEISURE ® Interview Together: And you can move around I REFUSE TO BE A without paparazzi in New York easily? “That’s not true. There’s the citizen paparazzi PRISONER IN (amateur photographers). I know that city better than the back of my hand, so I know the good places and I refuse to be a prisoner in New York, (laughs) I NEW YORK, I will not live in a tower - it’s my hometown.”
WILL NOT LIVE IN Together: Is it true that you might be interested in going into politics one day? “I mean, I am politically active and I think the idea of A TOWER - IT’S MY being a public advocate is attractive, but I’m only 28 years old. I think in 25 years time who knows where HOMETOWN my interests will lie but I will always be interested in politics for sure and I will always be interested in any new development and social activism.”
”I grew up in a politically verbal family, and we were always having that dialogue in the house a lot and I’d go with my mum to different mayoral rallies and to vote. We used to watch the debates growing up and stuff like that. My brother Hunter ended up working in local politics, so it’s always been something that, when I turned 18, I registered to vote.”
Together: Is it important showing your family your movies? What do they say about them? “I don’t even know if they’ve seen a lot of my movies, but I am sure they have. (laughter) I rarely talk about work with my family and that’s probably a side effect of the fact that I started working so young. I think it’s a psychological reaction to psychological reactions. I’ll have to analyze that for a bit. (laughter)”
Together: So when did you know that you wanted to be an actress? “I have always been interested in performance and when I was a little kid, I was singing and dancing, I took all kinds of classes and tap dance and I was one of those jazz-hand kind of kids. I wanted to be in musicals and everything, but it wasn’t until I was twelve, I think I made The Horse Whisperer, and I started to go, ‘Oh, I understand this as a performance,’ and I couldn’t imagine doing anything else.”
Together: So what roles are left for you to do? “I want to be a cowboy. (laughs)” www.rodania.com · www.facebook.com/RodaniaWatches Ref. 25091.43 · Info: Montebi nv, tel. +32 2 456 81 40, e-mail: [email protected] 74 I togethermag.eu LIFE OF LIFE OF LEISURE LEISURE Travel Travel Romantic Windsor and Eton Photo Windsor Castle: David Iliff If you’re short of innovative ideas to celebrate the day of love and romance, Martin beautiful views of Windsor Castle, is the perfect expertly prepared using a combination of fresh Banks may have the backdrop to get down on bended knee. seasonal goods from local suppliers and answer Alternatively, what could be more romantic than carefully sourced ingredients from further afield. surprising your future-intended with a horse- It makes for a great venue for Valentine or any drawn covered carriage ride in Windsor Great time of year. Park, available throughout the year. The world-renowned Windsor Castle is within A great local base for a short break is The easy walking distance for those travelling with Christopher Hotel Bar and Grill, just across the kids, and the famous Legoland is just a short river, which offers a spot of history of its own. drive away. In 2014 it will be opening an all new Originally built in 1511 and rebuilt as a coaching pirate adventure play area complete with a inn in 1847 for the princely sum of €956, the towering forgotten fortress and fearsome battle headmaster of nearby Eton College had it ships. Its hugely popular Pirate Falls log flume closed down and moved due to the «improper will host a brand new quest featuring more than reputation» it had acquired. 100 new Pirate themed LEGO models.
Its reputation now firmly restored, this stylish Windsor is easy to reach from Belgium and for 34-bedroom hotel (ranging from junior suites to those with a bit more time to spare you should deluxe singles) is surrounded by antique shops consider P&O Ferries which has no less than and art galleries. The bar and grill offer the 23 daily crossings on the Calais/Dover route, Photo Windsor Bridge and Town: BaldyBoris Town: and Bridge Windsor Photo chance to enjoy all day dining. This charming with prices for a daytrip starting from a mere private hotel, a former magistrates court, is €24 return (same calendar day). A long stay f so, you’d do well to consider whisking references to the idea that St. Valentine’s Day joined to Windsor by a pedestrian bridge and is (over 5 days) costs from €39 each way while a your loved one over the Channel to the was a special day for lovers. the perfect venue for a spot of romantic short break is from €44 return. All prices are for IRoyal boroughs of Windsor and Eton for a carousing. one car and up to nine passengers. romantic short break. Fast forward a few centuries and Windsor – where Chaucer, as Clerk of the King’s Works, Yet more romance can be found just over the Still unconvinced? If so, check out the stately It may be a little-known fact, but the area has a was employed repairing the Castle’s St. river at the Sir Christopher Wren Hotel, built by home at nearby Cliveden. Its beautiful gardens direct link with St. Valentine’s Day. Back in George’s Chapel – still offers lots of ways of the great architect in 1676 (he also lived there include ‘The Fountain of Love’ at the end of the 1389, Geoffrey Chaucer, medieval England’s expressing love. with his family). Wren is one of England’s most Grand Avenue. Enter the impressive recreation most famous writer, was given the job of distinguished architects, famous for designing of a maze designed and built for Lord Astor, the maintaining Windsor Castle and St. Valentine’s Arguably, the most romantic setting is nearby St Paul’s Cathedral and Windsor’s Guild Hall. former owner of Cliveden, in 1894. A word of Day was first associated with romantic love in Roman ruins, featuring 2,000-year-old Sir Christopher Wren has been a hotel since warning: be careful not to lose your beloved Chaucer’s circle. Corinthian pillars. Just the place to charm your 1920. before you have a chance to propose! very own god or goddess! It was in the Middle Ages that the tradition of Nowadays, it’s also rightly famous for fine www.sirchristopherwren.co.uk courtly love flourished and Chaucer´s For those thinking of popping the question a cuisine served in a stunning riverside setting, www.thechristopher.co.uk Parliament of Fowls poem is one of the first gentle sail along the River Thames, with ideal for smooching your partner. Dishes are www.poferries.com
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LIFE OF LEISURE LA TOURNETTE GOLF ACADEMY Travel Venez découvrir le golf dans l’un des plus beaux Clubs du pays, situé à quelques minutes du ring au sud de Bruxelles, lors d’une APRÈS-MIDI DÉCOUVERTE DE GOLF, organisée tous les dimanches de mi-mars à fin octobre!
Programme Delphine •14h45-15h00 Accueil des participants Stefens •15h00-16h30 Initiation de golf heads for the Med •16h30-17h00 Explications sur les étapes à suivre pour jouer au golf
Participation: € 5 p.p.Une réservation est nécessaire, lub Med’s latest 4-trident resort on the Turkish le nombre de participants par après-midi est limité. A FAMILY- Riviera opened last spring and is situated just Tenue correcte exigée; pas de jeans, ni de talons. Cnext door to the Lykia Links golf course. The latter is one of the few genuine links golf courses in the FRIENDLY Mediterranean and has been voted one of the world’s top 100 courses by Golf World. It is open to players with HOLIDAY a minimum handicap of 36 and located on 60 hectares of land and stretching for some 7km along the sandy beach and clear blue waters of the Mediterranean. This DESTINATION 18-hole, par-72 professional course was expertly designed by world-renowned, award-winning American WITH THE golf architect, son of the legendary Pete Dye. Other sports and activities at Belek include tennis, flying CLUB MED trapeze, sailing, windsurfing, archery, Pilates and many more. And as holidays are also about relaxing and being TRADEMARK pampered, Club Med has joined forces with French beauty expert Carita. The Club Med Spa by Carita features à la carte treatments as well as beauty and wellness packages, but one can also choose to unwind in a Turkish bath, a bio, traditional or Russian sauna as Golf Château de la Tournette well as in the indoor Japanese pool just outside the spa. Chemin de Baudemont 21 • B-1400 Nivelles Tel: 067 894 266 • www.tournette.com
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Be the fi rst to rent the new Peugeot 308 ! Europcar N° dossier : 20120507E Date : 17/10/2012 Belek is a family-friendly holiday destination with Accommodation includes Deluxe and Club Validation DA/DC : the Club Med trademark and professional rooms, suites as well as 16 luxury villas. Each Validation Client : childcare with a minimum entry age of four villa comes with a private garden, an outdoor months, but it also caters to the needs of its and an indoor pool (with a counter-current somewhat older guests. And just as the jetstream system), a sauna and a butler. children and teens enjoy dedicated care areas and activities, so do the grown-ups in search of Club Med’s Belek resort is situated 55km east some peace and quiet. Indeed, one of the six of and a 45-minute drive from of the Antalya swimming pools of the resort is a designated Airport. quite area as is part of the beach reserved for adults and teenagers over 16 accompanied by For more info: www.clubmed.com an adult.
And last but not least: gastronomy. A staple of the Club Med spirit, it is not only all-inclusive but also all- around. The main restaurant Rhapsody features an international buffet including Intersport Turkish specialities and live cooking, while the Oriantalist (reservation required) offers a more intimate atmosphere and an impressive mezze buffet, and the Adalya beach bar is perfect for a light or hearty snack. 3,6 - 5,8 L/100KM
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Sainte Foy: A ski resort like no other Julia Bush recommends a between trails to the terrifying descent to La No matter the season, the spa and fitness ski location that blends the old Fogliettaz. Skiers who choose to explore the centre in Sainte Foy’s new clubhouse offer a and the new off-piste options can take a helicopter into the relaxing atmosphere for guests. This wellness wilderness, where they are released with a centre is a partnership with Payot natural guide to explore the mountain. There is also a ingredients and includes personal training to ski school for beginners with two magic help people get in shape and find a balance carpets. between mind and body.
In addition to skiing, those who fancy a quieter When you’re done adventuring for the day, afternoon can snowshoe through the beautiful grocery stores, bars and restaurants clustered spruce trees and breathtaking scenery. in the village centre make driving unnecessary. Trekking through a postcard setting is an Le Monal, a hotel restaurant, is an excellent excellent alternative to traditional skiing. Guests choice for dinner. Usually full of locals (including even have the option of riding with a guide to some of the mountain guides you may have discover alpine nature. seen during the day), Le Monal has delicious French cuisine and a beautiful terrace During the summer, when there isn’t quite as overlooking the mountains. rom incredible opportunities for off-piste skiing to much snow to hike through, the resort opens mountain biking trails and 18th-century cottages, several mountain biking circuits and hiking trails. Accommodation in the centre and in satellite FSainte Foy has a little bit of everything for Guests can also go rafting or admire the old, villages are easy to find. Residence Les Fermes holidaymakers. Tucked in the middle of the French Alps preserved cottages built in the 18th and 19th de Sainte Foy is a two-minute walk from the ski near the Italian border, the beautiful little town is divided centuries that dot the mountainside. lifts, restaurants and shops. At Les Fermes de into two parts: the old village, at an altitude of 800 Sainte Foy, guests stay in their own spacious metres, and the ski resort. For mountain climbing enthusiasts, there is an apartments and have access to the swimming infrastructure in place for climbing and hiking. pool and spa area, which includes powerful Known primarily for skiing, Sainte Foy Tarentaise (not to The climbing routes are accessible to everyone spas, saunas and steam rooms. Another be confused with the town in Quebec) is a magnet for 12 years and up and require no special apartment option, Spa MMW L’Etoile des skiers of all levels. The ski resort has 15 slopes that are climbing ability. A via ferrata, which is a Cimes, offers guests comfortable, first-class accessible by four lifts, but skiers can also opt to take protected climbing route with steel cables fixed accommodation at a very reasonable price. on the resort’s off-piste, ungroomed terrain. Off-piste to the rock, makes climbing safe and secure. L’Etoile des Cimes is so close to the slopes that areas range dramatically in difficulty, from short runs guests can ski almost up to their doorstep, and
82 I togethermag.eu togethermag.eu I 83 LIFE OF LEISURE Skiing they also have free access to the pool and a lovely reception area with a roaring fire.
Chalet Yellowstone or Yellowstone Ski Lodge also won’t disappoint. The lodge is absolutely luxurious and minutes from shops and ski lifts. Yellowstone offers exquisite three-course meals and excellent wines. The Peak is a chalet with eight suites that is also a stone’s throw from the ski lifts. At the very heart of Sainte Foy, The Peak offers guests an intimate and comfortable experience with all the services of a 5-star hotel. The décor is especially impressive inside the four-story chalet.
Before all the beautiful lodges and personal trainers, though, Sainte Foy was built around an old farming community, and some of the original buildings and structures were maintained when new homes were built. More recent buildings have stone, wood and slate roofs and are nestled among older structures. The combination of modern and old architecture is unique to Sainte Foy Tarentaise, where luxury apartments snuggle up to more rustic chalets, creating a certain harmony while also respecting the town’s heritage.
One hundred small communities combine to make up the town. One of these communities is called Le Miroir, where the houses are in columns. Years and years ago, this PACK construction system made it easy for people to find shelter from bad weather. Now, what SKI / CHAUSSURES was once just a practicality makes Le Miroir beautiful. When in Le Miroir, don’t miss a visit BÂTONS to Chez Mérie. The restaurant looks like it’s just a house on top of a hill, and it is only PACK open Fridays and Saturdays during the off- season, but the hearty, delicious food makes SURF / BOOTS a night at Chez Mérie an absolute necessity. 40 € Be sure to share their starters — they are enormous, and you’ll want to try every one. / pour 10 jours
Most of Sainte Foy is quiet and unspoiled by time, and it’s an alpine resort for all seasons. 40 € / pour 10 jours
Intersport Ixelles - Avenue de la Couronne 480 - 1050 Ixelles - 02 644 36 94 84 I togethermag.eu Intersport Braine l’Alleud - Chaussée de Nivelles 18 - 1420 Braine l’Alleud - 02 384 31 55 www.myintersport.be LIFE OF LIFE OF LEISURE LEISURE Hotel Hotel A night or two in London
Firmdale Hotels re-opens the Dorset Square Hotel, and we highlight a landmark London hotel
Dorset Square Hotel The Landmark Hotel Dorset Square Hotel has experienced an Opened in the late 1800s the Landmark Hotel London is extensive refurbishment, stamping it with one of the few railway hotels from the Victorian era still in designer Kit Kemp’s signature style: bold existence today and is one of the most popular 5 star colours and textures, and bespoke and one- hotels in London. off pieces of original art collected from around Intricate ceilings, shining chandeliers and grand the globe. This beautiful Regency townhouse staircases provide an elegant and glamorous stay for has 38 individually designed bedrooms, many guests occupying the 300 rooms and suites. The of which look onto the leafy private garden marble bathrooms include a soaking tub, walk-in shower square which was originally the site of and two sinks. Thomas Lord’s first cricket ground – witty The cozy restaurant and bar – called ‘twotwentytwo’ references to the noble sport are scattered - dishes up modern-European fare. Oversized mirrors, around the property. wood-clad walls and a wine library offer a sophisticated and unique experience. The Winter Garden Restaurant The sumptuous guest drawing room with a sits in the heart of the beautiful eight-story atrium and fireplace and a fun bar-restaurant is open all proper afternoon tea is one of its specialties. day. The Potting Shed restaurant and bar proudly serves the best of British cooking The Landmark’s spa and health club has includes a (such as West Country lamb and Kentish sauna and ayurvedic treatments, which range from a goat’s cheese tart) and Mediterranean seaweed oil message to an aromatherapy facial. classics, along with a carefully selected wine list. The hotel is surrounded by fashionable Located in central London, the hotel is opposite shops, cafés, restaurants and world-class Marylebone Station and a short walk to Regent’s Park. galleries in the exciting, urban area of Selfridges, Bond Street and Dover Street Market are Marylebone. also close by, making this hotel a perfect location to www.firmdalehotels.com explore all that London has to offer. www.landmarklondon.co.uk
86 I togethermag.eu togethermag.eu I 87 LIFE OF LEISURE Travel Villa del Quar: A JAGUAR Hotel and FOR THE PRICE OF A CAR.
Paul Morris visits a Veronese villa Une Jaguar XF 2.2D 163 ch (CO 129 g/km) richement équipée avec with all the creature comforts 2 vineyard boîte de vitesses électronique à huit rapports, phares bi-Xenon, jantes en alliage 17", sièges en Suède/cuir,… temporairement à partir de 39.900 € net : Quar’s secret weapon: it has its own le luxe absolu à portée de main. vineyard, within view of the long cloister-like main hotel building. Fat Découvrez toutes nos conditions spéciales sur grapes hang heavily on the vines JAGUAR.BE and you can walk along the rows and hide from the world. JAGUAR XF A PARTIR DE 39.900 €* In the Arquade dining room that evening, just off the grand entrance hall with its impressive reception raised on a dais, I tried the iced foie gras, followed by the pigeon breast in cocoa beans with cream of carrots and ginger, and string beans. erona’s Arena is a fraction the size of its The foie gras simply melted away on the palette large Roman cousin, il Colosseo. and the bird was perfect – all helped along as Taking up a chunk of the town’s main the sommelier introduced me to the delightful square Piazza Bra, it hosts all sorts of concerts product of those grapes. This is Valpolicella but is at its best when the open-air opera country and their Sublitis red was robust but season begins in the summer. However, in this fair, a perfect accompaniment to the pigeon. If romantic, wintry month of February take to the the (very) local wine is not to your taste, there is side streets leading off and feast on the legacy an antique wine cellar just waiting to be of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, from the discovered. balcony to the grave, in a manner of speaking. The rooms are spacious and luxuriously And, not twenty minutes away from these comfortable, and throughout the hotel the staff bustling streets, along the ancient via Claudia welcome their guests with discretion. There is a Augusta, an alltogether different proposition helipad just beyond the vineyard – I was told awaits. Set in its own graceful grounds, Hotel that a Croatian family, from Split, land there in Villa del Quar – a listed National Monument, their helicopter once a year to savour five-star dating back to the 15th century – is perhaps the comfort and totally unwind. quietest spot you may ever find (unless getting lost in the Arctic is your thing). Even though the Bard’s most famous lovers await in town, it is tempting to just kick back A hotel should always be judged by its and have one more meander around the breakfast, not the quantity but the little details. vineyard – with perhaps a glass of Sublitis in In Villa del Quar they offer porridge, and a fine hand. porridge it is too. It’s taken under cover on a beautiful terrace overlooking a citrus garden. I www.relaischateaux.com HOW ALIVE ARE YOU? ventured out to work off some of that fine food www.hotelvilladelquar.it and found – beyond the garden wall –Villa del 4,9 L/100KM. CO2 : 129 G/KM *Prix net, TVAC. Offre valable au 1er février 2014. Avantage temporaire de 3.300 € sur le prix catalogue normal 88 I togethermag.eu de 43.200 € TVAC. Information environnementale (AR 19/03/04) : www.jaguar.be. Donnons priorité à la sécurité.
JAGUGEN4W238_XFPostSalon_Belux_Together_230Hx165_FR_IC.indd 1 30/01/14 12:06 Sans titre-1 1 30/01/2014 19:40:26 LIFE OF LIFE OF LEISURE LEISURE What’s On What’s On What’s on Belgium The Sustainable Future The TEDx event “The Sustainable Future” will be held at St. John’s International School in Waterloo.
The event, in partnership with the European Commissioner for Energy and Accenture, features an impressive list of speakers from across the sustainable energy spectrum: © Dmitrij Matvejev corporate, academic, regulatory and International Stage 2013 - 2014 entrepreneurial leaders will talk about the This colourful season offers you an opportunity current state and future outlook. The event will to discover the greats of international theatre. In be live streamed globally. the 2013-2014 season, BOZAR THEATRE welcomes, among others, Oskaras Korsunovas Only 250 tickets will be sold for this event and in a thoroughly Lithuanian interpretation of In 80’s we trust are now available at www.tedxsustainable.com. Shakespeare’s Hamlet. Eirik Stubø and Oslo’s “Remember the days when dancing was a National Theatre’s Disappear, a recent play by Simultaneously, there will be workshops for religion... children of the ‘80s here we come!” future. on March 28 from 13:30 – 18:00. Arne Lygre. Italian Pippo Delbono and the 14-16 year old students from schools around exclaims the website. Pop music, kitsch song, Romanian violinist Alexander Balanescu. Europe. They will be selected based on ideas Italo disco, dance-pop, wave, post-disco, soft St. John’s International School, Drève Richelle Until 19 June - www.bozar.be submitted for a future sustainable energy rock, synthpop, early electronic music, hip hop 146, 1410 Waterloo product that will impact the world. The and more... Every Wednesday. Free www.stjohns.be workshops will be run by science teachers, to entrance from 22:00 till 4:00. explore the concept of sustainable energy and Madame Moustache et son freakshow. Together is delighted to be a media sponsor for invent new methods and applications for the Quai au Bois à bruler, 5-7 / 1000 Brussels this event. wwwmadamemoustache.be René Guiette: Zen Composition Mind a Gap Mind a Gap is the result of an intense collaboration Guiette (1893-1976) was born into an artistic family. Yet as a painter he between choreographer Anton Lachky (ex- P.A.R.T.S., was self-taught, finding work initially as an art critic for the Sélection dancer Akram Khan, The SlovaKs) and five virtuoso magazine, making his debut only in the ’20s. Although his early work dancers, known for their performance in the creations owes a lot to the influence of cubism, he was later drawn into of Peeping Tom, les ballets C de la B and SlovaKs. expressionism, working closely with Jean Dubuffet after the war. 20-22 February. Tickets: €20 Firnhaber Pinos Leif © www.kvs.be His house is the only property in Belgium designed by legendary architect Le Corbusier (1927). A classic example of the ‘International style’ that came into prominence during the late twenties, designer Ann Demeulemeester is thought to be the current owner. Until 16 March.
Schiller Art Gallery, 12 rue van Moer, 1000 Brussels www.facebook.com/schiller.art.gallery
92 I togethermag.eu togethermag.eu I 93 LIFE OF LIFE OF LEISURE LEISURE What’s On What’s On The Mercedes What’s on House Concerts international he Mercedes House is more than just a Gábor Winand & Ramón Valle: showroom. Of course you’ll find the A Cuban-Hungarian mix in an Tclassy cars, but you’ll also discover a exclusive jazz concert great deal more. Within it you’ll find WY, a restaurant headed by Michelin two-star chef, Bart de Pooter. There’s a shop and regular temporary art exhibitions. The Mercedes House also builds a further link with the cultural community by hosting classical music and jazz classical and Hip-hop Wells performer Emily concerts. Isabella Blow: Fashion Galore! Les Femmes s’en Mêlent One Aldwych is offering an all-in package of an The festival has been celebrating the female The concert program is the outcome of a fruitful overnight stay in London and tickets to see the independent music scene for 17 years now. collaboration between Mercedes-Benz glamorous Isabella Blow: Fashion Galore! Belgium/Luxembourg and Outhere, a top exhibition at neighbouring Somerset House and Le Festival des Femmes s’en Mêlent has a truly Belgian classical and jazz music publisher. Well- Fashion Galore! cocktails. This major exhibition eclectic feel and mixes up the type of venue known labels include Fuga Libera, Aeon, Alpha celebrates her thirty year career which spans and geographical location, from the Swedish and Ricercar. working at US Vogue alongside Anna Wintour, Institute to Machine du Moulin Rouge. It exists British Vogue and Tatler. She is also known for to highlight the music of women in the indie, The latest event is a jazz concert featuring discovering models Sophie Dahl and Stella rock and folk scenes, both promising and Gábor Winand and Ramón Valle on February Tennant, and for her work with top confirmed. 27. Although they each have their own photographers like Steven Meisel and David repertoire, both solo artists have been playing LaChapelle. Though founded in Paris, the acts appear up together since 2007, a collaboration that led to and down the country for just over two weeks. the creation of the joint album Fabulas. Gábor The hotel is perfectly placed in Covent Garden Various venues. 18 March - 4 April. Winand is a Hungarian singer who also plays and Tube stations in all directions. Tickets: check online - www.lfsm.net clarinet, flute and saxophone. Born in 1964, Until 2 March 2014. Package rates from Cuban pianist Ramón Valle was a child prodigy £390 for two people including VAT. in the 1970s, and since then he has brought www.somersethouse.org.uk Steve Forbert out five albums. www.onealdwych.com Nashville-based singer-songwriter Steve Forbert returns to Glasgow to play St Andrew’s in the Practical Information: Square, the scene of his sell-out show at the Thursday, February 27, 2014 Glasgow Americana Festival in 2012. The concert will take place from 19:30 until 20:30 and will be followed by a dinner at the Live, the Grammy nominee is one of the few artistes Michelin-starred restaurant WY. who can mesmerize a crowd with nothing but a Price: Welcome drink and concert for €15 or distinctive voice, an acoustic guitar and his trusty welcome drink, concert and 3-course dinner harmonica slung around his neck. One reviewer with wine for €75. wrote recently: “Forbert is a hardcore troubadour Address: Grand Sablon Street Bodenbroek who works his ass off show after show to earn 22-24, 1000 Brussels every single fan’s loyalty.” St Andrew’s in the Square. Reservations 02/400.42.50 or address 27 March. Tickets: £15 mercedeshouse.brussels @ daimler.com www.fallenangelsclub.com togethermag.eu I 94 togethermag.eu I 95 IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII CHARITY IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII - IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII For theIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII childrenIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII school children in Louvain-la- Neuve in 2005; it also bought and renovatedIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII a building for students in secondaryIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII school in Limal in 2009; it organizes summer and after-school activities everyIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII year. Today, more than 100IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII students are enrolled in the two schools.
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